Rollout plan

NBN Co has released an update to its 12 month rollout schedule, released last October, on this website. The updated rollout schedule issued on 15 February 2012, includes an additional three months of rollout information covering the period to the end of 2012.

The new rollout plan increases to 758,100 the number of premises covered, including those areas where the network is active, where rollout activity is currently underway, and where work is due to start up until the end of the year. This is an increase over the October plan of 191,000 premises across Australia. This plan shows work commenced in areas to cover 58,000 premises during the previous three months, taking the total premises in areas where work is underway to 121,500.

Most of the growth in premises covered in the rollout plan comes in areas where work has already started. This is because NBN Co has said it needs to manage the rollout of the network as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible, and deploy contractor resources in a logical, sequential way.

It is estimated that the average time from work commencing to NBN services being available is 12 months.

As a part of our ongoing commitment to the industry and the Australian public, NBN Co is now providing regular updates where each quarter we will update information on the rollout of the National Broadband Network. In addition to quarterly updates we will also be releasing a three-year rollout plan in the 1st Quarter 2012.

Our rollout activities

If you live or work in one of the 66 towns or localities within the current rollout plan, keep an eye out on the Rollout maps page. Every month we are updating the site with detailed maps at the commencement of work in these areas. If the plan indicates we will commence work in a given month (for example February 2012) we will post detailed maps on this website during that month. The estimated average time from then to completing work and providing services is 12 months.

Our approach to building the NBN

NBN Co is rolling out the fibre network to existing communities in Fibre Serving Areas (FSA) of up to 40,000 premises that are made up of up to 12 modules (Fibre Serving Area Modules  or FSAM), each module consisting of around 3,000 premises.

In line with network design and planning rules, we will generally continue work of new modules next to existing modules (where practicable) until the entire fibre footprint in a Fibre Serving Area has been completed.

NBN Co will name the start date of any applicable modules in a given area as part of the one-year plan. Most of the sites where work will commence involve multiple modules and several may start around a given area over the course of the year. The estimated build time for a Fibre Serving Area Module, from the issuing of detailed design documents to our suppliers to when it is ready to connect consumers and businesses, is an average of 12 months.

National rollout maps

Our rollout maps section show sites already connected to the National Broadband Network along with detailed maps of the areas where work has begun.

More Information on Rollout maps ›

 

New developments

NBN Co is already building fibre infrastructure in over 190 new developments spread across 160 locations nationally and comprising almost 17,000 premises. A number of developments also have services available.

Please contact your developer to see if your home will be NBN ready.

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Transit Network And POIs

We are also working on the Transit Network, which is an important part of providing a connection to the fibre, fixed wireless or satellite services to be within the reach of every household and business in Australia. The first release consists of 155 Fibre Access Nodes and includes the first 30 Points of Interconnect - this is where NBN Co hands over traffic from its network to service providers.

The Transit Network will continue to grow in a number of further releases, with a target build completion date for the full transit network in early 2015. It is the pre-requisite for completion of the National Broadband Network in 2020. More information on the Transit Network.

We have commenced work on the Transit Network inclusive of the first 30 Points of Interconnect.

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